memisc (version 0.11-9)

getSummary: Get model summaries for use with "mtable"

Description

A generic function and methods to collect coefficients and summary statistics from a model object.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'lm':
getSummary(obj, alpha=.05)
  ## S3 method for class 'glm':
getSummary(obj, alpha=.05)

Arguments

obj

a model object, e.g. of class lm or glm

alpha

level of the confidence intervals; their coverage should be 1-alpha/2

Value

• Any method of getSummary must return a list with the following components:
• coef
  an array with coefficient estimates; the lowest dimension must have the following names and meanings: rcl{ est the coefficient estimates, se the estimated standard errors, stat t- or Wald-z statistics, p significance levels of the statistics, lwr lower confidence limits, upr upper confidence limits. } The higher dimensions of the array correspond to the individual coefficients and, in multi-equation models, to the model equations.
• sumstat
  a vector containing the model summary statistics; the components may have arbitrary names.

Details

The generic function getSummary is called by mtable in order to obtain the coefficients and summaries of model objects. In order to adapt mtable to models of classes other than lm or glm one needs to define getSummary methods for these classes and to set a summary template via setSummaryTemplate